SEVEN MONTHS – AT 9:10 A.M. ET:  Barack Obama leaves office seven months from today.  We have every reason to believe that he will leave under a gusher of undisciplined praise from a press corps that worked mightily to put him in office.

Odds are that, unless something very unusual happens, Obama will be succeeded by either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.  The mainstream media is currently developing the narrative that Trump is unelectable and that Hillary will be made queen.

Obama has been an awful president, and a cynical one.  He reserved virtually all of his truly controversial measures for his last 18 months in office, after he was freed of his obligations to the Democratic Party.  His administration has become increasingly dictatorial, doing by executive order what could not be done by proper Congressional action.

He has violated the most basic understanding of our form of government by presenting the Iran nuclear accord as an executive agreement rather than a treaty, which it clearly is.  As usual, the mainstreamers gave him a pass, not understanding the profound implications of refusing to allow the United States Senate to vote on an agreement affecting the very lives of tens of millions.

He has weakened national defense and national resolve.  He continues to ridicule those warning of the threat of Islamic radicalism, refusing even to use the term.

Obama's approval ratings are rising.  No one can quite understand why, given the condition of the country, but it may have something to do with the low opinion America has of his potential successors.  Never before have the presumed presidential candidates of both parties had such high disapproval numbers.

So we can look forward to that day, seven months from today, when America is freed from Barack Obama.  But what can we look forward to?  That is the question that is demoralizing the country, and for good reason.

June 20,  2016